Totems
...Lakeside, among the rustling reeds,
there is a whir and stir, whisks of motion
swish and ruffle.
Yellow Jackets, dragonflies, and Yellow Tailed fritillaries
vie for space in the sultry air.
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Categories:
fritillaries, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Totems
...Lakeside, among the dripping weeds,
Yellow Jackets, Dragonflies, gnats,
and Yellow Tailed fritillaries
vie for air space.
The water is still, a mirror
turned over to watch
what flies beneath ...
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Categories:
fritillaries, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Spring
...Life’s cyclic existence from death to rebirth
best understood this season of burgeoning.
Flora, as Phoenix, rises from the sodden earth
in graceful flourish of death unburdening
itself with friti...
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Categories:
fritillaries, color, environment, flower, life,
Form: Ottava rima
Idioms
...When the world was youthful
spiderwebs sang as they were spun.
Language was woven in the air
as accents of winds and trees
conveyed by an eloquent sky.
Untrammeled meadows annunciated
upon the ...
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Categories:
fritillaries, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Summer Meadows
...To lie in summer meadows with tall grass all around, eyes fixed and staring into endless sky.
Tracking across the heavens, trying to locate the sound of a skylark’s endless warble up on high.
Feeli...
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Categories:
fritillaries, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Totems
...I almost see the totem animals.
an almost place, placed before my eyes,
this morn-flushed day.
The red sky that charged the horizon
is shading to flamingo pink.
The storm must have lost its w...
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Categories:
fritillaries, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fritillaries
...a pair of Fritillaries
float drift and glide
dancing on air
weaving interlaced designs
around one another
in arcs
of becoming
ascending
on an invisible strand
like lovers consummating
in a...
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Categories:
fritillaries, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Rites of Spring
...Excitedly we travelled to the fair.
As fragrant scents of flowers filled the air.
Dawns gift of light showing sights enthralling.
Dewdrops mirror, broken pearlstrings falling.
Sunshin...
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Categories:
fritillaries, spring, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme